Rab7 delays intervertebral disc degeneration through the inhibition of the p38MAPK pathway.

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive and directly attack surrounding biomolecules to deteriorate cellular and tissue functions. Meanwhile, ROS also serve as signaling mediators to upregulate pro-inflammatory cytokine expression via activation of the nuclear factor kappa B signaling pathway, and the increa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Hu D,Li D,Shigeta M,Ochi Y,Okauchi T,Neyama H,Kabayama S,Watanabe Y,Cui Y

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers, skin legions and uveitis and its pathogenesis is not fully elucidated. Previously we identified that two novel susceptible SNPs are associated with BD. One is located in putative RNF39 promo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kurata R,Tajima A,Yonezawa T,Inoko H

更新日期：2013-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine induces several cardiac dysfunctions, which leads to arrhythmia, cardiac failure and sudden cardiac death. Although these cardiac alterations elicited by methamphetamine were thought to be due to an indirect action of methamphetamine, namely, an excessive catecholamine release from synaptic terminals, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sugimoto K,Okamura K,Tanaka H,Takashima S,Ochi H,Yamamoto T,Matoba R

更新日期：2009-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human prostasin was recently identified as a potential regulator of epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) function. Through the use of positional scanning combinatorial substrate libraries, prostasin was shown to have a preference for poly-basic substrates: in position P4 preference was for arginine or lysine; in P3 prefer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shipway A,Danahay H,Williams JA,Tully DC,Backes BJ,Harris JL

更新日期：2004-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Epididymal fluid from rats rendered infertile by oral administration of ornidazole contains a protein CAP1 (contraception-associated protein 1) that is absent from epididymal fluid, but present on epididymal sperm, from fertile vehicle-treated rats. The gene for CAP1 has been isolated from a rat testis cDNA library an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wagenfeld A,Gromoll J,Cooper TG

更新日期：1998-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous genetic evidence led to the conclusion that proteinase B of yeast was not involved in the function of chitin synthetase 1 (Chs1), based on the demonstration of normal septum formation, cell division and chitin deposition in mutants devoid of the proteinase (Zubenko, G.S., Mitchell, A.P., and Jones, E.W. (1979...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Silverman SJ,Shaw JA,Cabib E

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition and removal of interstrand cross-links is perhaps the least understood of all repair pathways in eukaryotic cells. We have shown previously that uncoupling of cross-links occurs in mammalian cell extracts and have identified a number of factors that mediate this process. However, we have not observed c...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lu X,Zhang N,Vasquez K,Barton M,Legerski R

更新日期：2005-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-established feature of the translation initiation region, which attracts the ribosomes to the prokaryotic mRNAs, is a purine rich area called Shine/Dalgarno sequence (SD). There are examples of various other sequences, which despite having no similarity to an SD sequence are capable of enhancing and/or initiati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Golshani A,Krogan NJ,Xu J,Pacal M,Yang XC,Ivanov I,Providenti MA,Ganoza MC,Ivanov IG,AbouHaidar MG

更新日期：2004-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium regulates diverse cellular activities in plants through the action of calmodulin (CaM). By using (35)S-labeled CaM to screen an Arabidopsis seedling cDNA expression library, a cDNA designated as AtCh-CPN10 (Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplast chaperonin 10) was cloned. Chloroplast CPN10, a nuclear-encoded protein...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang T,Poovaiah BW

更新日期：2000-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Small GTPase Rap1 has been implicated in the proper differentiation of testicular germ cells. In the present study, we investigated the functional significance of RA-GEF-2/Rapgef6, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rap1, in testicular differentiation using mice lacking RA-GEF-2. RA-GEF-2 was expressed predomina...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Okada K,Miyake H,Yamaguchi K,Chiba K,Maeta K,Bilasy SE,Edamatsu H,Kataoka T,Fujisawa M

更新日期：2014-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammation of the coronary arteries. Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) stimulated by cytokines and chemokines accelerate the inflammatory response and migrate to the injured endothelium during the progression of atherosclerosis. Activation of AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK), a key...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kim SA,Choi HC

更新日期：2012-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Isovalerylcarnitine, a product of the catabolism of L-leucine, is a potent activator of rat calpains isolated from erythrocytes, kidney, liver, skeletal and heart muscle. Only calpains II, but not calpains I, are activated by IVC, with the only exception of rat erythrocyte calpain I, the only species present in these ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Pontremoli S,Melloni E,Viotti PL,Michetti M,Di Lisa F,Siliprandi N

更新日期：1990-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human bladder carcinoma cell line EJ-1 secreted a protein of 30 kDa as a major component. This protein was purified from the serum-free conditioned medium of EJ-1. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence was identical to that of fibroblast-derived endothelial cell growth factor (f-ECGF), but there were differences in their...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Akaogi K,Okabe Y,Funahashi K,Yoshitake Y,Nishikawa K,Yasumitsu H,Umeda M,Miyazaki K

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:18β-Glycyrrhetinic acid (18β-GA) obtained from the herb liquorice has various pharmacological properties including anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial activities. However, potential biological anti-obesity activities are unclear. In this study, novel biological activities of 18β-GA in the adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 pread...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Moon MH,Jeong JK,Lee YJ,Seol JW,Ahn DC,Kim IS,Park SY

更新日期：2012-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have established that polypeptide growth factors cause an elevation of the cytoplasmic pH (pHi) in cultured mammalian cells by stimulating Na+/H+ exchange. We show that vanadate, previously found to act as a mitogen for a number of cells, reversibly activates Na+/H+ exchange at micromolar concentrations...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cassel D,Zhuang YX,Glaser L

更新日期：1984-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:During autophagy, the microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 (LC3), a specific autophagic marker in mammalian cells, is processed from the cytosolic form (LC3-I) to the membrane-bound form (LC3-II). In HEK293 cells stably expressing FLAG-tagged LC3, activation of protein kinase C inhibited the autophagic process...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jiang H,Cheng D,Liu W,Peng J,Feng J

更新日期：2010-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of DU-145 human prostate carcinoma cells is reduced to 50% of control by 1 X 10(-6) M to 2 X 10(-6) M selenium and to 2% of control at 10(-4)M selenium. These cells show greater sensitivity to inhibition of growth or DNA synthesis by selenium than human W1-38 and HeLa cells and mouse mammary tumor cells. It...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Webber MM,Perez-Ripoll EA,James GT

更新日期：1985-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthracycline derivatives such as doxorubicin are part of many chemotherapeutic regimens and reach peak plasma concentrations of 5 microM. We investigated the cytotoxic mechanisms of various doxorubicin concentrations in MOLT-4 ALL-cells. Concentrations of up to 100 microM doxorubicin achieved similar cytotoxic effect...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Müller I,Jenner A,Bruchelt G,Niethammer D,Halliwell B

更新日期：1997-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the restriction digest patterns of CCGG sequences in Kiras, Ha-ras, and c-myc oncogenes in rat tracheal epithelial cells transformed in vitro by 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene, benzo(a)pyrene/12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), or TPA alone. Oncogenes c-myc and Ha-ras in transformed cell lines...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Mass MJ,Schorschinsky NS,Lasley JA,Beeman DK,Austin SJ

更新日期：1989-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 induces heat shock protein (HSP) 72 gene expression in skeletal muscle, 18 healthy, young men had either a high dose of IL-6 (HiIL-6; n=6), low dose IL-6 (LoIL-6; n=6), or saline (CON; n=6) infused into one femoral artery for 3h. Muscle biopsies were obtained from t...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Febbraio MA,Steensberg A,Fischer CP,Keller C,Hiscock N,Pedersen BK

更新日期：2002-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Monomethylethanolamine (1 mM) and dimethylethanolamine (1 mM) stimulated DNA synthesis 10- and 15-fold, respectively, in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. In addition, simultaneous treatments with insulin (500 nM) and methylated ethanolamine analogues (1 mM or less) resulted in synergistic activation of DNA synthesis. The order of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kiss Z,Crilly KS,Anderson WB

更新日期：1996-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical industry has come under increasing pressure to make chemical production more eco-friendly and independent to fossil resources. The development of industrial processes based on micro-organisms can especially help to eliminate the use or the generation of hazardous substances and can support the transition ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Saibi W,Abdeljalil S,Masmoudi K,Gargouri A

更新日期：2012-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of apolipoprotein E (apoE) in the clearance of neutral and negatively charged liposomes by hepatocytes in apoE-deficient mice. Negatively charged liposomes were cleared at identical rates in apoE-deficient and wild-type mice; neutral liposomes were cleared at a 3.6-fold slower rate in apoE-defici...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yan X,Kuipers F,Havekes LM,Havinga R,Dontje B,Poelstra K,Scherphof GL,Kamps JA

更新日期：2005-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:EGF stimulates gene expression through a variety of signal transduction pathways that include the ras-Erk pathway. We have shown previously that EGF receptor activation stimulates gastrin gene expression through a GC-rich element called gERE. This element binds Sp1 family members and raises the possibility that the ra...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Merchant JL,Du M,Todisco A

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to construct a recombinant vector expressing siRNA targetedly inhibiting aquaporin 3 (AQP3), and to evaluate the effects of AQP3 inhibition on the proliferation and invasion of XWLC-05 human lung cancer cells. METHODS:We obtained human AQP3 sequence from the Genbank and establ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Xiong G,Chen X,Zhang Q,Fang Y,Chen W,Li C,Zhang J

更新日期：2017-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated genomic DNA containing the entire sequence of ZF5, which was originally identified by its ability to repress the mouse c-myc promoter and which was characterized as one of the POZ (Poxvirus and zinc finger) proteins. The POZ motif is a protein-protein interaction interface found at the N-terminal region of...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yokoro K,Yanagidani A,Obata T,Yamamoto S,Numoto M

更新日期：1998-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaperones assist in the correct folding of newly synthesised proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of cells, this being essential for the translocation of protein molecules to specific subcellular compartments, extracellular matrix or to biological fluids. The biosynthesis of some ER chaperones is regulated by g...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cechowska-Pasko M,Bańkowski E,Chene P

更新日期：2005-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The PKC alpha, beta, delta, epsilon and zeta isoenzyme changes in the rat kidney cortex have been investigated after temporary occlusion of the renal artery, followed by reperfusion for up to 4 h. Increased PKC alpha, delta and epsilon immunoreactivity and PKC alpha activity occurred within 60 min of postischemic refl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： La Porta CA,Comolli R

更新日期：1993-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a biological recycling process via the self-digestion of organelles, proteins, and lipids for energy-consuming differentiation and homeostasis. The Golgi serves as a donor of the double-membraned phagophore for autophagosome assembly. In addition, recent studies have demonstrated that pulmonary and hepati...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park S,Kim S,Kim MJ,Hong Y,Lee AY,Lee H,Tran Q,Kim M,Cho H,Park J,Kim KP,Park J,Cho MH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to evaluate functions of APOBEC3F gene in biological process of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and anti-tumor mechanisms of bufalin. METHODS:Effect of APOBEC3F and bufalin on cell proliferation and migration abilities were evaluated by CCK-8, wounding healing tests and transwell assays in SK...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang Z,Tao Y,Xu X,Cai F,Yu Y,Ma L

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00